Pragmatism versus Populism: Building a winning Labour Project in the age of anti-politics

Tristram Hunt is Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central. From October 2013 until September 2015, Tristram served as Labour's Shadow Education Secretary focusing on developing Labour's policy on teachers' professional development, vocational education and early years education.

Speaking in the aftermath of the General Election results, he called on Labour's ruling National Executive Committee "not to rush our election", saying there was time for a "brutal post-mortem" about Labour's "underlying philosophy and thinking".

The Antcliffe Lecture was established following a donation in the name of John Antcliffe, who studied History at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, before going on to become a respected public relations professional. You can read more about John Antcliffe, who passed away in March 2010, here.

The lecture took place onThursday 28th April in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre at Trinity College and the recording can be viewed below.

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